Do you ever just want to be rid of your X5?

[X5rolls]

Originally Posted by c4racer

I agree, and I have a 2003. it has been a great truck. 113K miles and counting. wife is driving it more these days for car-pool duty with our kids. I miss driving it, but then again I am daily driving a C6 corvette these days which is even more fun to drive. But I love driving the X whenever I get a chance to. It's just an excellent vehicle. I have owned 7 BMW's and it is way up there on the list, although pretty hard to compare it to a E36 M3 and E39 M5...

The 4.6is and 4.8is are special BMWs in my mind (I'm sure there are a good handful of others of course as well) and I too love driving it. I honestly think it all the time and hope I have it for many more years. Although I often tire of vehicles after a few years, it isn't happening with the X5.

[RickM5X3]

Do you ever want to be rid of your X5?

Yes, it is the problem child of my stable; always having bizarre electrical or mechanical gremlins. Then I hook it up to my 4,000 pound travel trailer and load 4 bikes on the roof. It self levels and proceeds to own high altitude passes, motoring by gas pickups struggling with the same loads. Then it becomes my favorite again . . . .

[RickM5X3]

Originally Posted by RickM5X3

Do you ever want to be rid of your X5?

Yes, it is the problem child of my stable; always having bizarre electrical or mechanical gremlins. Then I hook it up to my 4,000 pound travel trailer and load 4 bikes on the roof. It self levels and proceeds to own high altitude passes, motoring by gas pickups struggling with the same loads. Then it becomes my favorite again . . . .

LOL to my own post. As I was typing this, my wife arrived home and reported that the service engine light is on again. Peake code 2796 - 'check at lower stop' I have no idea what this is but the reset function on the reader works well.

[c4racer]

Originally Posted by X5rolls

The 4.6is and 4.8is are special BMWs in my mind (I'm sure there are a good handful of others of course as well) and I too love driving it. I honestly think it all the time and hope I have it for many more years. Although I often tire of vehicles after a few years, it isn't happening with the X5.

ya - kinda scary but me too. Most vehicles I move in 1-2 years. I have had the X5 for 1.5 years now and there is no such thought in my mind. I can see owning this one a long time.

[X5rolls]

Originally Posted by c4racer

ya - kinda scary but me too. Most vehicles I move in 1-2 years. I have had the X5 for 1.5 years now and there is no such thought in my mind. I can see owning this one a long time.

Yep, keepers.